Sentences with phrase «to mitigating climate change»

«Climate engineering can not be seen as a substitute for a policy pathway of mitigating climate change through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions,» they conclude in the paper.

We have the opportunity to take action now to help mitigate climate change by improving operational governance of our own organizations and setting an example for others to follow.

Developed nations see forest carbon projects as a low - cost option for mitigating climate change.

And, of course, by reducing carbon emissions, solar power helps mitigate climate change, making disasters less likely for everyone.

I often hear critics dismiss carbon removal approaches as both too expensive and too small - scale to have a material impact on mitigating climate change.

If managed properly, organic regenerative agriculture can mitigate climate change through carbon farming.

She vowed her personal commitment to mitigating climate change as well as the commitment by the Danish government.

The priorities we identify will strengthen global strategies to mitigate climate change impacts.

Cutting down on funds and information will limit what experts can discover and do to mitigate climate change risks in the southern hemisphere.

To mitigate climate change at local, regional, and global scales, we must begin to think beyond greenhouse gases.

The actions that will mitigate climate change most effectively are the ones nobody's talking about.

It is the damage being caused today by government policies to supposedly mitigate climate change.

But in the end, there is no credible path to mitigating climate change without a massive global expansion of nuclear energy.

Reducing the use of fossil fuels and slowing deforestation have many beneficial effects besides mitigating climate change.

If they put their vast resources to work in creating ways they can adapt to and possibly mitigate climate change effects, results might occur faster than projected.

We no longer have a choice between mitigating climate change and adapting to climate change.

A range of policy instruments is available to mitigate climate change including carbon taxes, emissions trading, regulation, information measures, government provision of goods and services, and voluntary agreements.

Simply planting trees may not be completely effective in mitigating climate change issues we face today.

In other words, the argument for action to mitigate climate change takes its own conclusion as its premise.

The costs of mitigating climate change amount to 3 - 5 % of the global economy for a period of 30 years or so.

Also, there's a great deal of complexity in our emissions that they need to be mindful of if we want to mitigate climate change efficiently.

The current situation represents a major opportunity for the forestry sector to contribute to increasing energy security and mitigating climate change by reducing dependence on fossil fuels.

However, the issues affecting these women can not be addressed without taking into account their roles and responsibilities on mitigating climate change.

Given the goal of mitigating climate change, it is important to consider all of the effects of changes in terrestrial vegetation and to work toward a better understanding of the full climate system.

All together, these effects lead to a willingness to pay more in goods, services and extra taxes to help mitigate climate change.

Managing groundwater sustainably can also play an important role in mitigating climate change.

Furthermore, carbon - heavy industries are not immune from disruption, nor are asset prices from regulatory efforts to mitigate climate change risk.

Efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture and forestry sectors could lead to increased food prices — but new research identifies strategies that could help mitigate climate change while avoiding steep hikes in food prices.

«We should not expect the tropical forests to help us much with mitigating climate change.»

For Bill Nye, mitigating climate change means attempting to «do everything all at once,» not dwelling on whether that will put a slight dent in the energy industry's profit margins.

Dirty Fossil Fuels vs Clean Renewable Energy: We have a clear choice - continuing the economy of dirty fossil fuels exemplified by the Keystone XL pipeline with a straight path to climate disaster, or starting a new path toward mitigating climate change with an economy increasingly focused on clean renewable energies.

Protecting public health and food supplies may take precedence over avoiding climate change in most countries, but knowing that these measures also mitigate climate change may help motivate policies to put them into practice.

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Prof Guan said: «In recent years, many researchers have proposed that consumption - based accounting be applied to re-allocate the responsibilities of mitigating climate change because of the large net emission flows from developing countries to developed countries.

Expensive action to mitigate climate change creates little or no net benefit, especially given that we are, apparently, committed to some level of climate change, leaving fewer resources available to local adaptation.

We can still mitigate climate change, too.

«If we grow regeneratively, using hemp as part of the rotations and other crops in that rotation, we are able not only to reduce and potentially mitigate climate change, we are able to boost soil health, boost the nutrients within our food, and to help really sustain our fields so that we can be growing food for a very long time for our people,» said Elizabeth Kucinich, Hemp History Week endorser and Rodale Institute board member.

The coastal ecosystems of mangroves, seagrass meadows and tidal marshes mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and oceans at significantly higher rates, per unit area, than terrestrial forests (Figure 1).

Working Group I (WGI) assesses the scientific aspects of the climate system and climate change, Working Group II (WGII) assesses the vulnerability of socio - economic and natural systems to climate change, negative and positive consequences of climate change, and options for adapting to it and Working Group III (WGIII) assesses options for limiting greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise mitigating climate change.